FHTWO: My Uncle Charlie went to Centenary College in Shreveport and worked his way through at the campus Dairy Queen. He and his brother Bill weren’t that many years older than I as they were my Mom’s youngest siblings.
I went to work with him one Saturday and enjoyed many different ice cream dishes including the banana split.

The one thing he made for me that I remember the most that day though was Frito-Pie. At the time I believe they spooned the chili over an open bag of Fritos. However they served it, I sure enjoyed me some Frito Pie. I am always thankful for my Uncle and that day. I had a lot of positive influences when I was growing up.http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2011/09/frito-chili-pie/

FHTWO: Paul Revere died…again. This time it was the leader of the 60’s group Paul Revere and the Raiders featuring Mark Lindsay. He was 76.

Back in the ’60s, in the little house I grew up in, we had two rooms cooled by air conditioning. My parents bedroom and across the hall, a room we treated as a den. During the summer, in the heat of the day it was hard to get me out of this room.

Dad had setup a small TV in the room and every afternoon in the summer a show, “Where the Action Is”, hosted by Dick Clark, came on with music. Precursor to music videos. The house band for the show was Paul Revere and the Raiders. I became a big fan of their music and their seemingly crazy personalities that came across on that show. So much so that the first concert I ever spent my hard earned money on was Paul Revere and the Raiders in Shreveport LA.

So Paul died, he had still been touring with a new group of guys, There are YouTube videos of his latest work. Not the same but the songs were still good and he obviously enjoyed seeing his fans.

FHTWO: I just figured it out. All these years I did not know. Yet when you do realize you think it was so simple you feel like kicking yourself in the buttocks.
Why do they call mixed nuts Party Nuts?
When you dig through the can and finally find a Brazil nut or a Filbert or a Pecan, or heaven forbid a Macadamia nut, you feel like throwing a party.
Party! Party! Party!

FHTWO: School use to be harder. Especially in the first grade. That is early in the 1800’s there were 27 letters in the alphabet, not 26. Yes, X,Y,Z, and…
When saying their ABCs the last character was mispronounced. When a word comes about from a mistaken pronunciation, it’s called a mondegreen.
The last character though later removed from the alphabet, still exists on all our keyboards. As a baby most of us stared at it daily on baby oil bottles and other products.
Many use it as a shorthand word when in fact in Latin it is what it is.
& now you know the rest of the story. It is also the name of a nightclub in New Orleans and a very famous Science Fiction movie directed by Steven Spielberg.
Oh and it isn’t the only former member of the alphabet. Learn what led to the extinction of the thorn and the wynn.

FHTWO: TBT, yes Throwback Tuesday.Tried to get the yellow out of this photo. Not my best work but the yellow is gone.

I was remembering this today for some strange reason. Summer of 1970, June, home on leave after Boot camp (Orlando Fl.) in San Antonio TX. I reported to A School in Great Lakes, IL on July 4th.

My best friend at the time (Johnny Mullins) and his family were visiting. So he and I went to the movies and saw Woodstock. Anyway, I have almost no pictures of me in uniform.

Funny story is that the lease on this house ran out shortly after this picture and when I came home on leave shortly thereafter,my family had moved, yes without telling me,. After a big cry I called them and asked them where they lived now.

FHTWO: Saw this post and while the advice is obviously sound, I have always read that the trip is about the journey and not the destination. If you want to live to 99 like Ida, I agree that you should eat nutritious food and exercise each day. And regardless of your lifestyle you should do what you need to do. That is being responsible and God knows there is not a lot of that running around.

Where I have trouble even reading it to myself is the either or clauses. Eat for nutrition and NOT for TASTE. What are you crazy? Imagine oatmeal over and over again. I like oatmeal but I would not choose it for taste. Give me some eggs and bacon and a golden biscuit with lots of real butter and strawberry jam. Now I know I just cut a few years off with that diet.

Now the other either or statement. Do what you need to do, NOT what you want to do. Carpe Diem. Enjoy today. Run through that mud puddle. Frolic in the leaves. Did I just say frolic? OK you get the point. Those things you do for enjoyment can reduce stress and increase happiness. Visit with friends and family. Tell old jokes and remember old times. See a great movie, see an average movie. All of these things make the journey more pleasurable and if the journey does end suddenly, what a trip you had.

In blade runner, at the end of the movie, a replicant with only a four year life span reflected upon his near death about things he had seen that most people do not get to see.

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I’ve watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those … moments will be lost in time, like tears…in rain. Time to die.”

So in his death he realized that life is precious not because of how long you live but what you have done and seen and experienced on your journey.

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FHTWO: I saw a post recently where the TV Channel selector knob was on display with the statement “Like if you remember when a TV had only 13 channels.” I had to laugh, first because there were only twelve channels on the dial displayed even though it went to 13 there was no channel 1, and remembering when my brother was born, I was 4, my Dad bought us a blond-maple TV (actually just a wooden box) that stood on a wooden blond-maple stand and it had the same knob. But in Shreveport at that time we had three networks, 3 channels, 3, 6, and 12. I am not sure when UHF channels were available as well as Public Broadcasting channel 13.

Even with only 3 channels to choose from there was always the possibility of a fight about which one to watch. The biggest revolutionary idea in TV watching to occur since then is not the 400 channel package you can get but the DVR. Now we can record anything we want to watch and watch it when we want and fast forward through the commercials.
They always talk about our parents generation and all that they saw come about. And thank God my parents are still seeing the changes. Though I believe the Baby Boomers have seen some of the biggest changes. And things are still changing rapidly, not all for the good.

]]>https://rettsetgo.wordpress.com/2014/09/26/fhtwo-only-13-channels-man/feed/0rettharrislikeour1sttvFHTWO: Grandma is Fuzzy and That’s OKhttps://rettsetgo.wordpress.com/2014/09/25/fhtwo-grandma-is-fuzzy-and-thats-ok/
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The very first one ( vinyl records ) reminded me of becoming a teen and my first purchase was a Beatles album. There is actually a resurgence of reissuing vinyl record sets for your favorite 60’s band, like the Beatles or George Harrison, or Paul McCartney.

Most suggestions required that you use your smartphone for everything which means you have to have (GPS device) activated, store your files in the cloud (thumb drives, optical discs, PDAs), and quit carrying your (compact digital camera.) They admit that Grandma may look fuzzy using your phone camera as the quality is not as good, but it is more convenient, it is better to only carry your phone.

I personally love the pictures I get with my compact digital camera and carry it when I know I will be taking pictures though everyone has a phone.

GPS tracking means they will always know where you are. Storage on the cloud has been proven to be unsafe. Vinyl records in some cases take me right back to the time I first heard the music and that trip is wonderful. And Grandma never appeared to be fuzzy, especially with my digital camera.

Don’t rush it. Very few things go obsolete until people no longer want them.

FHTWO: When I was growing up, LSU was the team to root for in Shreveport. We didn’t have a pro football team until I was 17 and we didn’t have the Dallas Cowboys to root for until 1960 when I was 10. My Dad and his three brothers were big LSU fans. They even went to the Cotton Bowl one year to watch them play Arkansas.

We had relatives in southern Louisiana and on one trip we stopped at the LSU campus and saw the kitty cat and the LSU track.

In the early days (first 50 years) LSU’s mascot was a paper-mache tiger (for 50 years). One of LSU’s graduates donated a small, black South American cat; it was probably much like a bobcat or a jaguar with a short tail. LSU fans called him “Little eat em Up”. LSU lost all of its conference games that year, so they fired the mascot.

Anyway, I was around 9 or 10 and seeing the track decided I would run around it. A quarter of a mile. I do not know what possessed that little stupid kid. I did not run track. I was genetically slow. I did not want to stop until I finished because my parents and brother and sister were patiently waiting for super sloth to complete the oval, probably wondering where the nearest phone was just in case to call for an ambulance.

Inside I was proud I finished and outside I was so embarrassed. I felt like Little Eat em up. I was sure I was going to be fired as an under performing child.